Xanthel Linares, 24, phoned her mother when he car was sinking in water

For an unknown reason her car smashed through a road barrier and into a canal in Hesperia, California, at about 2.30am yesterday and landed in the water, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

In an emotional press conference, her mother Patricia said her daughter had told her: “‘Mommy, the car, I went in the water’.